The 58-year-old author and poet logged an IQ of 175
(a score over 160 is considered a genius IQ) at age
57. For the moment, this makes him the tenth "smartest person in
the world" on the World Genius Directory.

But Rodgers is the first to point out that high IQ and general
intelligence are not one in the same.

Shortly after our article ran, Rodgers sent us a candid email
detailing the pitfalls of having a high IQ.

"Geniuses are the loneliest people on Earth because almost
nobody understands them," he wrote.

Rodgers' high intelligence has often been more a burden
than a gift. Although Rodgers suffers
from dyslexia and epilepsy, he was at one point
misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic and forced to take anti-psychotic
pills for six years.

Read the full response below, only edited for
clarity:

Too often, elite geniuses are treated like idiots or victimized.
Because psychiatric staff could not cope with my intelligence,
they incorrectly stated that I experienced schizophrenia and
delusional disorder and forced me to suffer anti-psychotic
medication for six years of my life. Geniuses are the loneliest
people on Earth because almost nobody understands them. Jason
Betts and Ivan Ivec are leaders in uniting geniuses so that we
can communicate about solving difficult problems. As I chat with
normal people, who do not know about my IQ scores, they tell me
about extremely high IQs of their friends, but almost always the
scores are fantasies of their friends. When I was younger, I
scored higher IQs and was terrified of how I would be victimized
for my extreme intelligence. Now, in 2012, geniuses are being
accepted as contributing members of society. Psychiatric staff no
longer punish me by forcing me to consume anihilatory
anti-psychotics.